as they said on the broadcast $233 mil payroll and no farm system. Better hope you win it this year because its over

Because the young core of Betts, Benintendi, Bogaerts, Devers et al will all be retiring in their early 20's this winter?

haha, i had a few pops in me and was feeling pretty aggressive based on the score last night.

Definitely have a great core. The two best hitters on either team at the moment. Going to be a lot of fun. But yeah, the Yanks definitely have a lot more flexibility based on the farm and payroll. Will be interesting. Sticking to my assertion.

Also, ya'll better hope David Price is completely miserable and opts out. You should boo him every chance you get. That contract is gonna be so bad.

as they said on the broadcast $233 mil payroll and no farm system. Better hope you win it this year because its over

Dave Dombrowski fucking tool bag.

But he traded for Carson Smith and Tyler Thornburg and look how those moves have worked out...

The Carson Smith trade was a home run since all we traded was Wade Miley and his full awful contract.

The Red Sox could have gotten a box of balls and it would have been a home run.

The Thornburg trade didn't work out but its not as bad as some reporters make it out to be.

Travis Shaw is hitting .217 this year against lefties with no home runs and 5 RBI's.

He is basically a platoon player.

Shaw also was benched back in June for lack of hustle and his manager said this wasn't the first time it has happened.

Shaw is an OK player who had a career year in 2017 and now is looking more and more like he was with the Sox in 15-16.

Neither one of the trades worked out for the Red Sox, but neither really hurt the Red Sox either.

Well Shaw has 16 HR already this year, nothing to sneeze at, his numbers project out to pretty close to last year aside from a drop in BA, and Dubon was hitting .343 at AAA before getting hurt in May and is a top 10 prospect in the brewer's farm system. Not a bad haul for a guy who has now pitched a whopping 1.1 innings and looks washed up.

Sale was slated to pitch against the division rival New York Yankees in this week's four-game set at Fenway Park, but that's no longer on the table. Brian Johnson will start Thursday in his place.

"We think it's a short time period ... he just said it's really been more mounting," Red Sox president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski said, according to Evan Drellich of NBCS Boston. "It's been something that's bothered him a little bit."

Dombrowski added that an MRI was not necessary for his star hurler. Sale, for his part, said he's not concerned.

"Normal soreness in same general areas, little more than I'm used to," Sale said. "Said something and they wanted to give it a little more time. ... I'm not worried about it at all.

The injury comes as Sale was in the middle of an impressive stretch on the mound. Over his last six starts, Sale has allowed only one earned run in 39 innings (0.23 ERA) with 67 strikeouts.